Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a great deal to be learnt about committee work and the new councillor must expect to undergo a probationary period in some of the less important committees of the council . |
| 2 | We may expect to generate a better estimate by using pseudo-costs . |
| 3 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 4 | The great man might expect to play a major part in the design of the building , as Maxwell did when the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was built following his appointment in 1871 , as the first professor of experimental physics . |
| 5 | A 400-year-old school for boys in Shrewsbury is hardly the place you might expect to find a true example of hi-tech living . |
| 6 | Davy at the end of his life remarked that the service of the laboratory was a service of danger ; that few chemists could expect to retain a quick eye and a steady hand for very long , and would have to rely on the hands and eyes of assistants . |
| 7 | They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term . |
| 8 | It could expect to defeat a lesser power like Argentina , but taking on Communist China was unthinkable . |
| 9 | Only operators able to fill their trains could expect to make a reasonable profit . |
| 10 | Ministers could expect to have a parliamentary majority whatever they did . |
| 11 | This practice was only varied if there was some known defect in the title , and if that was so , one could expect to find a special condition on the contract , indicating that the buyer would take the title as it stood , and would not raise requisitions after contracts were exchanged . |
| 12 | This comparative static result suggests that in empirical work we would expect to observe a positive correlation between alternative wages or unemployment benefits , and union wages and membership , but also possibly a sharp discontinuity in this relationship . |
| 13 | Students may then be asked in what physical form and in what situation they would expect to find a given piece of discourse . |
| 14 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 15 | You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school . |
| 16 | Students can expect to spend a substantial part of their courses doing practical laboratory work . |
| 17 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
| 18 | Most obviously , both women and men can expect to have a recognizable period of ‘ old age ’ when they have ceased paid work , the creation of a standard age of retirement from work being a twentieth century phenomenon . |